Direct high-resolution genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii in arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus) in the remote arctic Svalbard archipelago reveals widespread clonal Type II lineage

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 158, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 121-128

  Prestrud, Kristin Wear ^a   Åsbakk, Kjetil ^a   Mørk, Torill ^b   Fuglei, Eva ^c   Tryland, Morten ^a   Su, Chunlei ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Arctic fox; Genotyping; PCR RFLP; Svalbard; Toxoplasma gondii; Vulpes lagopus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOX; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VULPES LAGOPUS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; FOXES; GENOTYPE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; AVES; CANIDAE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VULPES LAGOPUS;

EID: 53549118846     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.08.020     Document Type: Article

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